Poe in Idaho

We went to Idaho for four days for a family reunion and funeral. Being from Virginia Beach (large, dense, humid, and green for the most part) it was... small, sparse, dry, and beige.

Some deer wandered pretty close at the state park after dinner one night.

Outside the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, they put fake tracks in the cement
so you can see what the trail would have looked like.

This is the ferry that the town, Glenns Ferry, was named after.

Poe reads about the ferry.

Poe samples a beer in the Oregon Trail Cafe and Bar.

Still thirsty? Huckleberry soda (huckleberries are big out there).

Sign recognizing the pioneers who braved the Oregon Trail.

A real live telephone booth! I don't know if any of you still have these around,
but I certainly haven't seen one in my adult life, so I was really amazed.
It was right outside our 9-room motel.

Close-up of Poe in the telephone booth.

Ruts made by the Oregon Trail, still there to this day!
(It probably helps that people walk down them to get to the ferry site.)

A map of the local falls. We visited Shoshone Falls Park (far left) and Twin Falls Park (far right).

Shoshone Falls. It use to be a whole horseshoe shape, but irrigation projects have
taken away a lot of water upriver.

Another view of Shoshone Falls.

One more of Shoshone Falls (the horseshoe used to extend to the right of what's there now).

Reading about the expansion project.

Twin Falls. There used to be two (thus the name) but one is dry now
(see irrigation projects upriver above).

Reading about the history of Twin Falls.

A recreation of a Conestoga wagon like those used on the Oregon Trail
(and painted in University of Oregon colors). The one to the left was built
for the bicentennial in 1976.

It was not easy getting home. (Have you ever had a flight delayed because you didn't have enough CUPS on board?... and then you left after an hour delay, still without the cups? And then, because of the whole cups debacle, you sprinted across the Atlanta airport only to arrive at the gate two minutes after your flight left two minutes early? Well, we hadn't either, until last night.) But we made it, and we're back to work now.